CHANDIGARH: Ten individuals — including two Indian-origin Canadian nationals — have been arrested in a sweeping US-led international crackdown targeting a major drug trafficking and murder conspiracy network linked to a high-profile witness killing in Colombia earlier this year.

The arrested men of Indian origin have been identified as Deepak Balwant Paradkar (62) and Gursewak Singh Bal (31).

Bal is a Canadian criminal barrister. The arrests were announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 19 following the unsealing of a nine-count federal grand jury indictment.

According to the DOJ, 11 defendants are now in custody as part of the case centered on Ryan James Wedding (44), a former Olympic snowboarder from Canada who is currently on the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives lis

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